Dear Sheila,
We acquired a Microtek Artixscan 1800f for our Digitisation Project
last year, and have been very impressed with the quality of scans
produced and the ease of use. The glassless transparency adapters are
very easy to use.
In particular, the scanning software, Silverfast AI, is superb - this
comes supplied with a number of scanners in this price range, and I
wouldnt consider looking at anything else. It certainly reduces the
amount of subsequent correction work required in Photoshop, and makes
for a pretty fast workflow. It also allows for very straightforward
scanner calibration, with IT8 targets supplied.
Provided you don't need to scan anything larger than A4+, I'd
wholeheartedly recommend this scanner.
I hope that's helpful, and good luck with the project.
James
James L. Hall
Digitisation Project Coordinator
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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On 15 Jan 2004, at 11:00, Sheila Perry wrote:
> Hello all,
> We are setting up a digitisation project in the National Galleries of
> Scotland and we wondered if anyone on the list had experience of using
> the HP scanjet 8250 which comes with a built-in transparency
> attachment, which we would use for high res scans both of 5x4
> transparencies and photographic prints. However there is a suggestion
> that this scanner will not be good enough and particularly that there
> will be problems with scanning transparencies 'through glass'.
> Alternatives suggested include the Microtek Artixscan 4500T SCSI,
> Microtek Artixscan 2500 SCSI, Microtek Artixscan 1800 Firewire, LaCie
> BlueScan 48 USB/Firewire Scanner. Does anyone have experience of any
> of these, particularly for anything involving transparencies and/or
> works of art? We are concerned that the above-mentioned alternatives
> may not offer as good a resolution as the HP (and most are much more
> expensive) or that they will not be as good for scanning photographic
> prints.
> There are other operational and strategic concerns involved in this
> decision but at the moment I am just asking for technical
> advice/opinions from members of the group as quickly as possible.
> Thanks.
> Best wishes,
> Sheila Perry
> National Galleries of Scotland
>
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